That suggests that when these international licensors license streaming rights, they are either going to be shared rights, or only a short exclusive license window (like a week), or else carve Daisuki shared rights out in the contract.

You also have to wonder if they were talking about catalog titles or simulcasts with that statement. As you say they probably won't have too many simulcasts*, so they could just be talking about the majority of their series. Using a sequel such as Oreimo 2 as a basis for them being non-exclusive doesn't provide any conclusive evidence either, so we'll just have to wait and see.

* There could be a decent number if they pick up other ongoings from those companies, although they are mainly kids series like Battle Spirits, Aikatsu, Inazuma Eleven, Danball Senki, YGO Zexal, Gyrozetter, Tanken Driland etc.

All of my shows for this season are starting to end, hoping for announcements soon
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Same here. After next week the only shows I will have left will be Chihayafuru 2 which I love, Love, LOVE! And Space Brothers which has gotten boring, Boring, BORING with survival training... I hope it heads back to Space sometime soon...

And I hope, other than Oreimo 2, that I have some more shows to watch or else it will be weird after having watched 20-25 simulcasts a week for the last umpteen seasons. It really doesn't feel like there will be that many for me to watch this time. Very, very odd... Just not gettin' the call to action this season

Not many shows for Spring interest you? It feels like Spring has quite a good shows coming imo

All of my shows for this season are starting to end, hoping for announcements soon
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Same here. After next week the only shows I will have left will be Chihayafuru 2 which I love, Love, LOVE! And Space Brothers which has gotten boring, Boring, BORING with survival training... I hope it heads back to Space sometime soon...

And I hope, other than Oreimo 2, that I have some more shows to watch or else it will be weird after having watched 20-25 simulcasts a week for the last umpteen seasons. It really doesn't feel like there will be that many for me to watch this time. Very, very odd... Just not gettin' the call to action this season

Not many shows for Spring interest you? It feels like Spring has quite a good shows coming imo

llamabenwrote: You also have to wonder if they were talking about catalog titles or simulcasts with that statement.

As far as catalog titles, they can make it so for those as well, by only streaming catalog series that have no current exclusive streaming rights licensed out.

Since a license term is normally 7 years (and almost always 5-9), that would be almost anything in their catalog that was not re-licensed not only from the 90's but also into the middle of the last decade. Even if they write new licenses for any of those series in the future, they'd just write the new streaming license terms to be compatible with also streaming in the Daisuki catalog.

So they write a clause once and add it to their standard license language, and from that point on, the bulk of contracting costs are entirely avoided for the series where a Daisuki partner is holding the original international distribution rights. And saving contracting rights for licenses is where they get their cost advantage on catalog titles, allowing for a deeper catalog.

If home video distributors and broadcasters want streaming rights, it would be silly to lock them down. Even if its streaming rights on a stand-alone basis, the temptation is to license them out, since that means a MG payment is made rather than taking the risk on the revenue that the show will earn at Daisuki,

A principle question they'll have to decide is whether they hold an exclusive streaming rights in the first week, since obviously Crunchyroll would have to offer a lower MG for seasonal streaming rights than they could offer for simulcast rights.

For me, if I learnt anything from last season, it's that great shows can come from nowhere, and some shows get marketing budgets they don't deserve.

I mean, I was interested in Oreshura, Vividred Operation & Amnesia, and felt all three were pretty weak, yet Kotoura-san, Problem Children & Unlimited Hyoube Kyousuke came from nowhere and were great.

This season I'm looking forward to Oreimo 2, as the first season was great and the material gets better and better for season 2.

I also want to see Devil Survivor 2, but can't believe that Crunchyroll would get that one. After Persona 4 I expect it to be a fairly biggish licence. I can definitely see Kaze going after the Europe rights for it.

For me, if I learnt anything from last season, it's that great shows can come from nowhere, and some shows get marketing budgets they don't deserve.

I mean, I was interested in Oreshura, Vividred Operation & Amnesia, and felt all three were pretty weak, yet Kotoura-san, Problem Children & Unlimited Hyoube Kyousuke came from nowhere and were great.

This season I'm looking forward to Oreimo 2, as the first season was great and the material gets better and better for season 2.

I also want to see Devil Survivor 2, but can't believe that Crunchyroll would get that one. After Persona 4 I expect it to be a fairly biggish licence. I can definitely see Kaze going after the Europe rights for it.

I agree that Kotoura-san and Problem Children were wonderful surprises..I love Vividred but agree it could have been better, but it was a big one I was looking forward to so I may have had my expectations too high. Oreshura I disliked at first but by the end I am enjoying it.

Still, there seem to be less. I am always surprised but I see less possibilities. Hope I am wrong.

Looks like Funimation will do most of its Sakuracon annoucements on Friday(Crunchyroll's panel is on Saturday. I can't remember if Viz has theirs on Friday or Saturday). I imagine that Funimation may let a simulcast announcement happen(but they'll probably wait a week or two for the rest because they usually announce late). Since Sakaracon is a big convention and they are hyping Psycho-Pass that weekend, I would expect that Galgantia and/or Attack on Titan would be what they'd announce.

I imagine that if Crunchyroll doesn't do a bunch of annoucements at Sakuracon, they'll have to do a boatload of simulcast annoucements next week since most of the Spring 2013 anime starts next week.

I can easily imagine that Crunchyroll could annouce RDG: Red Data Girl (whose broadcast premiere is early morning April 4th), DD Hokuto no Ken , Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge , Aiura and Karneval at Sakaracon or early next week to be on time for their broadcast premieres.

All of my shows for this season are starting to end, hoping for announcements soon
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Same here. After next week the only shows I will have left will be Chihayafuru 2 which I love, Love, LOVE! And Space Brothers which has gotten boring, Boring, BORING with survival training... I hope it heads back to Space sometime soon...

And I hope, other than Oreimo 2, that I have some more shows to watch or else it will be weird after having watched 20-25 simulcasts a week for the last umpteen seasons. It really doesn't feel like there will be that many for me to watch this time. Very, very odd... Just not gettin' the call to action this season

Not many shows for Spring interest you? It feels like Spring has quite a good shows coming imo

i Think looking aT The lisT and deciding to not watch any one of them is a mistake every time. anime is something i think you can never tell whether or not it will be good or not from a simple plot description or picture. I mean think back to the seasons and how many surprises you have had with a series you thought would be terribad.

I always watch every series that is released and then ater a few episodes if it is in fact terribad then i will stop watching. I personally like to give everything atleast 5 episodes. Although i will say i have a rather sizeable interest range so i tend to end up watching and liking most of the anime i watch etc.

I hope CR gets the second season of Nyaruko-san W... What anime are continuing though?

Chihayafuru 2

Hunter x Hunter

Space Brothers

Naruto Shippuden

Aoi Sekai no Chushin de (whenever the third episode is released)

Cardfight Vanguard

Saint Seiya Omega (I think)

Folktales from Japan (I think)

The third (which also the last) episode of Aoi Sekai no Chushin de is confirmed airing on 4th April in Japan, I expect Crunchyroll going to made announcement about it soon along with new simulcast titles.

Saki Episode of Side A can be considered as a continuing titles, episode 15 is going to be aired on 2nd April and episode 16 (which also the last) is going to be aired on 25th May. Again, I expect Crunchyroll going to made announcement about episode 15 simulcast soon.

Straight Title Robot Anime can also considered as continuing since episode 9-12 is going to be aired in April.

TV Aichi already made a temporary schedule for Folktales from Japan up to episode 65, so it definitely still continuing. The new episode this week (episode 52) is a rerun just like episode 27 which was skipped, that's why it isn't listed in the Launch Calendar.